Model Kural School 


ANNOUNCEMENT 


The Mavyville Normal School announces the opening at the begin- 
ning of the school year of 1913-14, or at the latest only a few weeks 
after that time, of its new Model Rural School provided for by the 
last legislature and intended as an illustration to the state at large of 


what a consolidated, two-teacher rural school should and may be. 


The purpose is to make the Model Rural School exhibit the best 
things that are practicable and feasible upon the sides of building, grounds, 
equipment, teacher, course of study, daily program, methods of instruction, 
management of children, and social center activities—in a word to make the 
school a rich source of inspiration and helpful suggestions to all, especially 
teachers and school officials, who are interested in rural education and the 
general development of country life. 

While the Model Rural School is to be a two-teacher school and 
is primarily intended as a practicable and feasible ideal of what is rapidly 
coming to be the most common type of consolidated rural school; the one- 
room, or rather the one-teacher, rural schools, of which there are nearly 
5,000 in the state will not be forgotten, but every possible effort will be 
made through the Model Rural School to improve them, without encourag- 


ing their multiplication, in all essential wavs. 


The Model Rural School is evidence of the interest of the state 
at large in promoting rural welfare and, also, of the clear perception of 
~ plain duty and of enterprise upon the part of the Mayville Normal School, 
which is the first institution in the Northwest and one of only five or six in 
the whole United States to undertake the model rural school project in a 
complete and thoroughgoing way. The normal school welcomes sugges- 
tions from all sources of any things whatever that will make its Model 
Rural School of the greatest service to the state. 

The Model Rural School will mean greatly improved facilities at the 
normal school for the training of rural school teachers. Young men and 
women wishing to prepare for work in the rural schools should fully under- 


stand the distinctly superior advantages now to be offered them by the 
Mavyville Normal School through its Model Rural School. 


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Che State Board of Eduratinon 


The first state board of education for North Dakota, created by the 
last legislature, came into power on July |. The board consists of nine 
members—five ex officio, the presidents of the university and the agricul- 


tural college, the state superintendent, and the two public school inspectors; 
and four appointive—the presidents of a state normal school and a state 
industrial school, a county superintendent, and a male citizen not engaged 
in education. ‘The state superintendent is president of the board and his 
deputy is secretary. [he first and present personnel of the board is indi- 
cated on the opposite page. 

The board must hold six regular meetings and may hold six special 
meetings each year, and any meeting may be held anywhere within the 
state at the board’s pleasure. [he new board displaces the State Board 
of Examiners, the State High School Board, and the State Agricultural 
and Training School Board and assumes all their powers and duties. In 
addition the board is authorized to make the necessary rules for the classi- 
fication of the elementary schools and for administering the state aid for 
such schools. ‘[he board, or its authorized representatives, may also visit 
and inspect any of the state educational institutions and may require of 
them reports giving such information as either the board or the state 
superintendent desires. 

‘The first meeting of the board was held in Bismarck with all mem- 
bers present on July |. [The board completed its permanent organization 
by electing three standing committees corresponding to the main divisions 
of its work—the Committee on Examinations and Certificates. (Messrs. 
Smith, Hillyer, and Taylor), the Commitee on High Schools and County 
Agricultural and Training Schools (Messrs. McVey, Worst, and Hey- 
ward), and the Committee on Rural, Graded, and Consolidated Schools 
(Messrs. Crawford and Macdonald, and Miss Sorenson). As nearly as 
possible the authority of these committees is limited to investigation and 
recommendation, and final decision and execution reserved to the board as a 
whole. 

The board has taken up its work with a progressive spirit but with 
due regard for conditions as it finds them and without any disposition to 
proceed violently. At its first meeting it accepted the rules and regulations 
of the three boards it displaced as a temporary basis of work. Undoubt- 
edly new policies as well as modifications of old ones may be expected from 
the board but only after careful deliberation. 

The creation of this board, as that of the Board of Control for Penal 
and Charitable Institutions, illustrates the marked tendency throughout the 
whole country toward greater centralization of administrative control. 
Just how far this tendency should be permitted to operate is a difficult 
question, but it is probably true that, upon the whole, North Dakota has 
more to fear, especially in education, from decentralization than centrali- 
zation of power, and, if so, one should not expect the disappearance of the 
State Board of Education but rather an improvement in its formation and 
an extension of its field of activity. 


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THE SUMMER SCHOOL AND THE MAYVILLE 
CHAUTAUQUA 


This year’s summer school began on [uesday, July 8, and closed on 
Wednesday, August | 3, and was very successful in every way. All things, 
even the weather, seemed to conspire to make work pleasant for both 
students and teachers, and, outside of the regular work, there was cer- 
tainly no dearth of good things in the way of lectures, entertainments, 
picnics, out-door games, etc. 

An outside attraction of special interest to those attending the summer 
school was the Mayville Chautauqua which was conducted by the city 
for five days from July 9 to 13. Nearly every student bought a season 
ticket at the specially reduced price and the summer school program was 
so arranged that all students could attend the entire Chautauqua without 
missing any classes. [he Chautauqua afforded a splendid opportunity to 
the students of the summer school to hear some excellent lecturers and 
some musical and literary talent of the best kind. 

This first Mayville Chautaugua was financed by the leading business 
men of Mayville, who knew what the educational value of a well con- 
ducted Chautauqua would be not only to Mayville and the surrounding 
country but to the students who came to the summer school from more 
distant parts of the state. [he Chautauqua proved a success in every 
way, even financially, and there is at present no reason to doubt that the 
Mayville Chautauqua has become a permanent institution. ‘There is every 
assurance that the students who come to the summer school for 1914 will 
have even better Chautauqua advantages than those who were at this year’s 
summer school. Certainly the educational opportunity offered by the May- 
ville Chautauqua is a most valuable supplement to that which has long 
been offered by the Mayville Summer School. 


THE ENTERTAINMENT COURSE 


Each year the normal school conducts a course of cultured entertain- 
ments which presents a number of well-known lecturers and musical and 
literary artists. ‘The last five courses have included Elias Day and Oranne 
Truitt Day, Ross Crane, Ernest Wray O'Neal, the Minneapolis Symphony 
Quartette, Ralph Parlette, The Chicago Ladies Orchestra, The Brush 
Comedy Company, The Eva Bartlett Macey Company, Col. G. W. 
Bain, The Parland-Newhall Company, The Castle Square Entertainers, 
The Chicago Operatic Company, Edward Burton MacDowell, William 
Sterling Battis, The University of North Dakota Glee Club, Capt. Rich- 
mond Pearson Hobson, The Cambrian National Glee Singers, The Sol 
Marcosson—lIon Jackson Company, Edmund Vance Cooke, The Dixie 
Jubilee Singers, The Cambridge Players, Henry L. Southwick, Otto 
Meyer and Madame Thurston, The Fisher Shipp Concert Company, [he 
Pasmore Trio, J. M. Cleary, and The International Operatic Company. 


